Apple-corer.



Patented Mar.29, 1910.

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RBssMA PLE GORER. APPL T N FILED JAN. 11,1908.

BERYL H. CRESSMAN, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

APPLE-COREE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 29, l1910.

Applicationled January 11, 1908. Serial No. 410,843.

To all whom fit may concern.:

Be it known that I, BERYL H. CREssMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Apple-Corers, of

' which the following is a spec1fication.

` My invention relates to a new and useful apple corer and consists 1n providing means for automatically discharging the core from the device.

It further consists in roviding a separable stem with means or attaching the parts together.

It further consists in other novel details' of construction, all as will be hereinafter fully set forth and claimed.

Figure 1 represents a side elevation of an apple corer embodying my invention showing the apple in section. Fig. 2 represents a vertical sectional vie-w of the corer. Fig. 3 represents a side elevation of a portion of a device showing a different means for securing the parts of the stem together. i

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in the figures.

Referring tothe drawings: 1 designates the handle of the apple corer and integral therewith or secured thereto is one section or portion 2 of the stem, the same being hollow and having the threads 3 thereon.

4 designates the removable section or portion of the stem provided with the threads 5 which are adapted to engage with the threads 3 on the portion 2 in order to lock the two sections together. Secured to a suitable point on the interior 0f the corer, in the present instance, to the handle 1 is a coiled spring 6 upon the end of which is secured a follower or' plunger 7 which in the present instance is provided with the upturned iange 8 within which the lower end of the spring 6. is seated and secured, this being accomplished in any desired manner.

The lower or operating end of the section 4 is provided with thecut away V portion 9 4forming the points 10 for piercing the apple or other fruit.

The operation of the device will be read-` ily apparent: The points 10 are forced into the apple or fruit and the cre is forced into the section 4 of the stem, compressing the spring 6. As soon as the corer is removed from the ap le the spring forces out the core as will e evident.` By removing the section 4 the parts can be thoroughly vlvahed and access to the interior may be In the construction shown in Fig. 3 in lieu of the threads 3 and 5 I provide abayonet joint as shown in the pin l1 secured to the section 4 and the slot 12 having the oil"- set recess 13 for the reception of the pin 11 so that the parts cannot be accidentally separated.

Having thus described my invention,`what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

As an improved article ofmanufacture,

an apple corer consisting solely of a tubular mem er havin forming a han le, a cylinder detachably yet firml held to the other end of .said tubular mem er and having V-shaped openings at its outer end, a spring extending 'lengthwise of and within said tubular lne-mberand cylinder and abuttin at its inner end againstsaid cross mem er, and a follower in said cylinder and having an upturned flange, said s ring havin a bearing within said'upturne flange an against said follower and the latter at all times confined within said cylinder.

BERYL I-I. CRESSMAN.

a cross member at one end' 

